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The UNIVERSE.
Vain Wretch! toward Heav'n direct thy wond'ring Eyes:Behold the Sun, array'd with Glory, rise. Night and her gloomy Train before him fly: His Race begins: He blazes through the Sky.Oceans of Light he pours upon the Plains, And forth to Labour calls the jovial Swains. All Nature smiles, rejoycing in his Beams: The Fish skim, sportive, o'er the gilded Streams: The feather'd Kinds their Morning Anthem sing, And soar aloft, exulting on the Wing:Their tow'ring Tops the waving Forests shew, The Meadows glitter, spangl'd o'er with Dew: The op'ning Flowers their various Dyes display, Perfume the Skies, and welcome in the Day.
Again; observe him in his Noon-tide Hour: Learn thy own Weakness, and his mighty Pow'r. When all the Cattle panting leave the Plain,And seek the Shades, canst thou his Heat sustain?

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